Rustam Minnikhanov meets with Marshal of Pomeranian Voivodeship Mieczyslaw Struk

Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov met with Marshal (governor) of Pomeranian Voivodeship Mieczyslaw Struk on December 7 in Gdansk.

The meeting was held in a building of Marshal Department of Pomeranian Voivodeship.

Tatarstan delegation was presented by Director of Department for external relations- Aide to RT President on international issues Iskander Muflikhanov, Chief of RT investment development agency Linar Yakupov, and Director-general of ZAO “Innovative production technopark “Idea” Sergey Yushko.

Rustam Minnikhanov expressed gratitude for invitation to visit the capital of Pomeranian Voivodeship – the city of Gdansk in order to get familiar with history, economy and culture of the region.

He reminded as well Tatarstan delegation had already visited Tatar people’s centre of culture of Poland Republic in Gdansk, met with members of Tatar community, and laid flowers at the monument to Polish Tatars which was unveiled in November last year.

RT President highly appreciated opportunity of cooperation between Tatarstan and Pomeranian Voivodeship within the framework of development of Russian-Polish relationships. He marked for 9 months of 2011 commodity turnover between Tatarstan and Poland exceeded 3 bln US dollars.

Rustam Minnikhanov believes trade-economic and cultural cooperation between two regions should be developed. Tatarstan is ready to establish mutually beneficial relations, he said.

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Pomeranian Voivodeship is located in the North of Poland, by the Baltic Sea. The Voivodeship numbers 2,2 mln citizens and occupies the area of 18 thousand km². The capital is Gdansk city.

Main economic sectors in the region are sea farming, fuel and chemistry industries, mechanical engineering, building, agricultural and food industries, furniture and clothes production, electric and energy industries, agriculture, fishery and fish breeding, trade.